Max Mayer was a Swiss
footballer
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who played as
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Career
Born in
Switzerland, he moved to Italy to play for
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
. For the Ligurian club, he played three seasons: 1905, 1906 and 1909–10. His debut for the club on 5 February 1905, in a 0–0 draw against Andrea Doria. In his first season with Genoa, he obtained the second place in the national group, and the third place the following season.
After three seasons of inactivity, he returned to Genoa in the
1909–10 season, obtaining the fourth place in the final group stage round.
After the experience in
Liguria
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, he returned to Switzerland where he played for
St. Gallen
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and
Basel
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With St. Gallen, he obtained the third place in the Eastern Group of the
1910–11 Swiss Serie A
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The
following season, he moved to Basel, with which he obtained the fifth place in the Central Group.
1912
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References
Swiss men's footballers
FC St. Gallen players
FC Basel players
Genoa CFC players
Swiss expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Men's association football midfielders
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